Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State

by Maura Dykstra

Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine investigates the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing state. It begins in the mid-seventeenth century with what seemed, at the time, to be straightforward policies to clean up the bureaucracy: a regulation about deadlines here, a requirement about reporting standards there. Over the course of a hundred years, the central court continued to demand more information from the provinces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674270959
• ISBN13: 9780674270954
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 5.6"